Kintor wrote: Zoltor wrote: Power doesn't mean crap anymore, well it hasn't meant crap for a very long time infact, but it means even way less now.
They could make a mobile device that's 10x more powerful then the most powerful super computer in the entire world, and it still wouldn't matter.
Did you even read my post, power has nothing to do with it, I didn't say mobile has much less graphical power or anything like that.
PS. Hell I didn't even get into the pricing models yet lol, we could spend all day talking about that too, if you so want? The mobile, and the handheld market are 100% different markets altogether.
The games industry has always been about power. Let's not forget this brilliant peice of marketing:
A console perceived as being technically inferior to the competion becomes worthless in the eyes of the public. This is the problem Nintendo has been facing ever since the Wii, they gave up trying to create competative hardware and relegated themselves to second tier status. The WiiU couldn't compete with the PS4, Xbox One and PC. Just as how the 3DS couldn't compete with smartphones. The NX will be the same story, weak hardware that makes Nintendo look bad.
It's hilarious you post a pic of the genesis, because the fact is, It's a closer matchup to the NES(even then the NES library is far superior with better color, and some similar games running a million times better on the NES)
There's this false impression that competing=similar graphics lv, and anyway there's only two real consoles ever since Sega left the hardware industry(The XBOX brand has been little more then a FPS, and EA marketing machine), covering very different types of gamer at that, so no if anything, the last thing Nintendo should do, is follow suit.
As much as I hate Ubisoft, they did give a real reason to why they aren't gunho on Nintendo systems, instead of them whining about graphic power(which oddly enough they haven't been doing such lately, although I find it disturbing that they think handheld gaming systems are geared towards the casuals, just because they are handhelds/have less power then consoles) like usual, they just simply said, their games don't sell on Nintendo consoles.
It may very well be the first legit statement Ubisoft has ever said in their entire existence.
One may ask, well why don't such sell on Nintendo consoles, It's not like they haven't truly tried(It's really one of the only times they put real effort into something too).
Well there's a few reasons, one is that most of the types of games Ubisoft makes, are not really the types of games even the hardcore gamers who buy a Nintendo system would ever play(well not if they have to pay more then 5-10 bucks for anyway), and the types of games Nintendo system owners would play, the Ubisoft variants are mediocre at best. Nintendo system fans have come to expect a hell of a lot more, then what the Ubisoft variants have, so yea ofcourse such Isn't going to sell.
The people who claim to hate Nintendo, are the same people that are more accepting of buggy or unfinished games. Bethesda gets away with murder on a regular basis, and in a million years Ubisoft/Crapcom would never dare pull that Unity'SF V BS on a Nintendo system. The first time they did that, would likely be the last time they release any game on a Nintendo system, without having such be play tested/beta tested by Nintendo employees first.
Speaking of crapcom, Sony is stupid for not making sure the game was finished, when crapcom released SF V(all the insane amounts of money Sony spent, was literally pissed down the drain), Sony definitely has legal grounds to sue Crapcom for such, even though Sony was careless(Sony funded Crapcom to make a whole game, Crapcom knowingly releasing a unfinished game, which inturn natually hurt Sony's rep big time, and cost Sony a fortune on just the cost of the failed SF V game alone, let alone made people more hesitant to buy anything funded by Sony before waiting for "user" reviews, not just the Crapcom IPs)
Now back to your argument, that's not true, only the graphics whores will write off a system for so called having inferior specs. You know, the people who need to have every new thing on launch day, and get rid of their older, more useful systems, just because It's not the "new" thing. These people need to cling to specs, because there's no library, so bragging about specs is the only way to warrant their early purchase.
In the "real" world, people who play games, because they actually like X games, do not consider olde systems or tech in gereral as inferior.
It's ironic needing to explain such on a Shenmue site of all things, a series on a console that while was the most power at the time, still has the some of the best games not only gameplay wise, but visually as well(hell even 3D graphics as well, to date, the main characters heads are still easily among the best heads ever made, if not thee best, they're definitely still the most realistic heads ever made). Does anyone who Isn't completely ignorant, think the DC is inferior, no. The only think about the DC that is inferior is the damn laser, due to them over spending on the Saturn's Laser, they when full on scrooge MC'Duck with the DC's laser sigh.
Many companies, as well as graphic whores only care about the here, and now, but what's really important is if a game has staying/lasting power. Do you think Square became such a big company, by releasing the generic, money grabbing crap they make these days, hell no, infact long ago they use to actually make great games. Now, the few potentially good games they do release, tend to be Japan only tsk tsk tsk.
16ish years later, Shenmue is still alive, most hardcore fighting game fans, still play mainly MvC2 as well as SF third strike, most RPG fans play RPGs from the 90, and back. Strategy games, are early 20001, and back, ect.
All on systems with nowhere near the raw power of the PS4 mind you. What matters to most people who "actually" care about games, is a console's "library", not the specs of X console.